The relationship between educational attainment, and the transition to motherhood has been an important topic of discussion in the demographic context. Influenced by the social and economic contexts and transformations, the educational level and the motherhood timing play a central role in shaping the life courses trajectory. E.g. in countries, such as Italy, Portugal or Spain, the extensive access to education...
Demographic paradigms are constantly in change with time. Together with the increasing lifespan, fertility rates are declining across entire Europe. These two factors are contributing jointly to a generalized aging in populations for the most industrialized countries. Portugal is not an exception, and if in some cases fertility recuperation is starting to be observed, it seems that this recuperation is not clos...
Portugal is among the group of European countries that is still not recovering in the cohort fertility level, and at the same time was also the only Southern European country, which remained in the minimum value of 1.3, for the period total fertility rate, in the year of 2009. If we establish a comparison between fertility levels in 2000-2005 and 2006-2010, in the European context Portugal is the only country p...
O acentuado declínio e adiamento da fecundidade surge associado muitas vezes a questões como o prolongamento da formação e do ensino e a forte participação feminina no mercado de trabalho. Estas questões demográficas são hoje preocupação de cientistas e políticos que procuram evitar o acentuado envelhecimento da população, nomeadamente, em países do Sul da Europa como Portugal. O objectivo deste trabalho é assi...
In the 50’s the difference between the life expectancy in Portugal and the mean value in Europe was about 9 years; this discrepancy had gradually narrowed to 2 years in the mid 80’s. Since then, this difference had remained almost the same. We will focus our analysis in this period, after 1980, to get a closer look concerning the differences between Portugal and the other European countries as Spain, Italy and ...
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